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Devoted fans aren't unusual in the music world, but Belle and Sebastian--not a duo, but a mixed-gender septet from Glasgow, Scotland--inspires cultish adoration from folks too old and too smart to be hanging posters on the wall. The group's votaries meet in coffee houses to pore over lyrics. A couple proudly reported naming their children Belle and Sebastian. There's even a website devoted to--no joke--original fiction inspired by B&S songs. What artistic force could cause perfectly normal adults to regress into thoroughly obsessed teens...
...Rodney Glasgow '01, who founded Take Another LooK (TALK), says administrative assistance was essential to the founding of his organization. But after the group was created, he says, Cooke's office provided little guidance when he tried to find funding for its goals...
...worked all year without a budget, which severely hindered what we could do," Glasgow says. "Miscommunication and lack of communication from the administration on how best to [secure funding] did hinder the group...
...Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe were not only extremely wealthy but also situated on isolated coastlines and poorly defended--sitting ducks for men with agile ships. With the raid on England's Lindisfarne monastery in 793, the reign of Viking terror officially began. Says archaeologist Colleen Batey of the Glasgow Museums: "They had a preference for anything that looked pretty," such as bejeweled books or gold, silver and other precious metals that could be recrafted into jewelry for wives and sweethearts. Many monasteries and trading centers were attacked repeatedly, even annually. In some cases the Vikings extorted protection money, known...
...this newborn century--in which accumulating evidence points toward a multiuniverse cosmos where component universes, our own included, are continually created and die--your cosmic analysis can be summed up with some very brief words: What a lot of crap! JAMES C. RITCHIE Glasgow...